Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1887-06-11
WASHINGTON GOSSIP.
THE WHITE HOUSE DURING THE
PRESIDENTS ABSENCE.
How Other Presidents Have Spent Their
Observation-Disclosures Travels of Our
Executives - Garfie1d's Assassination.
Jackson's Nose Pulling.

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Travels of Gu
Executives - Garfield's Assassination
Jackson's Nose Pulling.
Especial Correspondence
WASHINGTON, June 8.
The White House is as deserted during til
presidents absence as the catacombs Th
tread of sightseers only now falls upon til
tiled floor of its grand vestibule, and the voic
of the office seeker and the visiting Statesman
is unbeard. When l called at the great whit
palace this afternoon found two solitar,
women trying to peep through the wall O
broken glass which separates the entranc
hall from the grand promenade corridor. Tn
east room has not visitor, and the shabby
stair carpet which, worn by the tread O
thousands Of place hunters, leads to the room
Of Col. Lamont, looks the shabbier for it
temporary disuse. The old messenger who
announces the callers to the president was alb
sent from his post, and the colored mar
whose cannon ball head bows you into the
private secretary's room was not to be seen
| The presidents room bore the same deserted
! air, and the house reminded me of those
have seen for rent "fully furnished" The
presidents desk was in complete order. His
papers had been carefully piled up, and his
great steel pen was laid on the top of a
bundle of legal looking papers and his ink
stand was closed. Lamont's desk was in SIM
liar order, and the only striking feature that
nowe holds the place of his working hand
is a paper weight of glass through which
shines out the face Of President Cleveland
The eyes Of this face are turned directly
toward Mr.. Henley, who presides over La
mont's room during his absence, and whose
mouth is as tightly closed as that Of the God
dess of Silence. A*A
President Cleveland is exceedingly fond of
the mountains. He spent his vacations in
the Adirondacks when he was governor of
New York, and his first vacation as president
was taken there. Last year he chose the top
of the Alleghenies for the scene of his honev-
moon, and now he has taken bis wife to his
old camping ground to spend the anniversary
of their marriage. A very pretty story was
told me at the time Of his nomination of one
Of his earlier adventures while on one Of his
gubernatorial vacations. Some Of the men
at the hotel where his party were stopping
shot doe and captured a little fawn, which
they brought to the hotel There were sew
eral in the party, and it was question as to
whom the fawn belonged and as to what
should be done with it. The ladies Of the
hotel were unanimously for setting the trem-
bling little thing at liberty, but the men OBJ
jected. 1t was finally decided to leave the
matter to Governor Cleveland. A sort of
trial was then held and arguments for and
against letting the fawn go were made. Gov
ernor Cleveland listened to the end and then
promptly said he would decide that the fawn
go free, and it was liberated.
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CLEVELAND ia tha On1y r,rne.tj,,,k x,,o l.u~
had for many years who has taken his yaca
tions in the mountains. Washington went
to his home at Mount Vernon whenever he
could get an opportunity, and his visitors
during his stay there were so numerous that
the milk of 100 cows was not enough TO
supply his table. He apparently liked trav-
cling, and during his presidency he made a
tour of the south in a white chariot with fine
horses. He received an ovation everywhere
and he was always we'll treated. He made
also tour of the eastern states, but would
not SO into Rhode Island, and John Hancock
the governor of Massachusetts,, insulted him
by refusing to call upon him when he first
came to Boston. He stayed at his own house
and said that he was as big as Washington.
who was nothing more than the chief of a
confederation of states, while he himself was
the chief of state. He finally called upon
the president when the citizens of Boston
cried shame" and made him do So Jelfer
son, Madison and Monroe took their vaca-
tions by going to their homes, which were in
Virginia and not far away. And the two
Adamses went to Quincy, near Boston. An
drew Jackson used to go down the Potomac
with Amos Kendall and spend week Mt a
time fishing from a pile of rocks in the center
of Hampton Roads, which is now known as
Fort Wool or the "Trip Raps," and John
Tyler owned a little country house on
the banks Of little lake near
Fortress Monroe. Buchanan sometimes left
Washington for Wheatland, his country
home near Lancaster, Pa, and President
Lincoln was too busy during his presidency TO
get much farther away from Washington
than the Soldiers Home cottage, which he
occupied during the summers of the war
Grant liked the seaside, and he was a born
traveller. He went to Long Branch often
during his presidency, and Arthur did like
wise. -
Garfield was just starting for Long Branch
when he was assassinated by Guiteau in the
depot here, anu it is remarkable that the
presidents i'll our past who have Travelled dur
ing their administrations have met with
trouble during their trips Andrew Jackson
ASNSh'N' VIC Sicttpsot lusulu Oh lie when ba
was on the way to lay the corner stone Of the
monument to the mother of Wasbiugtrn nj
Fredericksburg, Va. The steamer in which
he left Washington stopped at Alexandria.
and during the wait discharged naval lien
tenant rushed into the cabin and thrustinp
his hand into the presidents face violently
pulled his nose The mans name was Ran
dolph, and his friends hurried him away be-
fore Jackson could retalate. During his trim
to the north President Jackson narrowly
escaped death from the breaking down of
bridge in New York city, and his horse took
fright on Broadway and would have thrown
him had he not been an excellent rider. On
another occasion the wadding of a cannon
came within few inches Of stngeing his
stiff white hair, and, on the whole, his
famous trip was full of accidents John Ty
sr came near being blown to pieces during
The excursion which he, in company with his
'abinet and others, made down the Potomac
IN the Princeton. The trip was for the test
ng of new gun. The gun burst and killed
,wo members of the cabinet and also Mr..
iardner, who had two very pretty daughters
With him on board 1t is said that TYLER
'aught one of these daughters in his arms
when she was about to faint away and that
iere begun the love which afterwards caused
him to marry her
Andrew johnson was another president
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